About Richard Blurton

Heather Lee. NSW race walker Heather Lee is gunning for a record that’s missing from her collection when she competes at the 2018 AMA National Championships on April 29: the world record for the W90 10km road walk. Heather, 91, set world records in the 3000m and 5000m walks at the Australian [...]

Registration All athletes must collect their registration pack before their first event. It contains their bib numbers, programme book, plus any pre-ordered merchandise and dinner tickets. The Registration desk will be open 12 - 5pm on 25th and from 1 hour before the first event on competition days. It will be on [...]

WAAS Training. WAAS is available for training 24th from 3pm to 7:30pm on payment of $8 entry, and from midday 25th free for masters athletes. During the championships all training must be at the warm-up track.

Bus arrangements to stadium. Go Adams have been contracted to provide a bus service from the CBD to the stadium. There will be 2 pick up points in the CDB, and the bus circuit will take 90 minutes. A timetable and map of pick up points will be provided to competitors. [...]

Merchandise designs revealed. Our exciting range of merchandise can now be revealed. They feature West Australia's traditional gold and black colours and incorporate our numbat emblem. The polos and tee's come in a wide range of sizes and are priced at $35 and $30 respectively. It is highly recommended that you purchase [...]

Perth2018 major sponsor. The organising committee are delighted to announce that VenuesWest will be our major sponsor. VenuesWest owns and manages Western Australia’s best sport and entertainment venues on behalf of the State Government. The portfolio consists of 13 venues including Perth Arena and Optus Stadium. They were also a major sponsor of [...]

The numbat. Our Championship emblem, the numbat, is now one of 12 endangered marsupials that is rarer than the giant panda. In the Dryandra forest in WA numbers are down from 600 in the 1990's to less than 50 today. The Perth Zoo has a programme to recover numbat [...]